Raymond J. Mooney is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He is an author of over 150 published research papers, primarily in the areas of machine learning and natural language processing. He was the president of the International Machine Learning Society from 2008-2011, program cochair for AAAI 2006, and is a AAAI and ACM Fellow. His recent research has focused on learning for natural-language processing, statistical relational learning, active transfer learning, and connecting language, perception and action.